The MySpace "Cretins" -- Coming To A Web Site Near You (NWS)

If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.

Here's why: at a conference in Paris yesterday, MySpace (NWS) announced "MySpaceID." It allows MySpace users to login to partner websites with their MySpace account and see which of their MySpace friends use the same site.

So yeah, beware: the cretins are coming!

Key to the MySpaceID initiative is an alliance with Google (GOOG) to intergrate MySpaceIDs into Google Friend Connect, which should speed adoption of sites accepting incoming MySpaceID-based logins. Makes sense for both companies: Google already sells ads on MySpace.